基本释义
- vt.& vi.
- （使某人）窒息而死; （将某人）闷死; 阻碍
- vi.
- 呼吸困难，窒息; 受扼制; 受阻（发展不了）
词性变化
- 第三人称单数:suffocates;
- 过去式:suffocated;
- 过去分词:suffocated;
- 现在分词:suffocating;
- 名词:suffocation;
实用例句
Many dogs have suffocated in hot cars.
许多狗在热烘烘的汽车里给闷死了。
牛津词典
The couple were suffocated by fumes from a faulty gas fire.
由于劣质煤气取暖器漏气，这对夫妇窒息而死。
牛津词典
He put the pillow over her face and suffocated her.
他用枕头捂住她的脸，把她憋死了。
牛津词典
(figurative)She felt suffocated by all the rules and regulations.
她受不了所有那些条条框框的束缚。
牛津词典
Can I open a window? It's suffocating in here!
我可以打开窗户吗？这里面都快把人闷死了！
牛津词典
[不可数名词]to die of suffocation
窒息而死
牛津词典
He either suffocated, or froze to death...
他要么是闷死的，要么是冻死的。
They were suffocated as they slept.
他们睡觉时窒息而死。
That's better. I was suffocating in that cell of a room...
这样好些了，我刚才在那个小房间里快闷死了。
The airlessness of the room suffocated her.
房间里密不透风，憋得她喘不上气来。
After a few weeks with her parents, she felt she was suffocating...
和父母呆了几个星期后，她感到自己毫无自由。
The governor's proposals would actually cost millions of jobs and suffocate the economy.
总督的计划可能会造成上百万人失业，并束缚经济发展。
But they do suffocate from a lack of air.
但它们确实也会因为缺少空气而窒息.
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I have a tight grasp of the feelings and let him suffocate you.
我有一个严格把握的感情,让他窒息您.
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Suffocate and send to until the last days of one's life talented poetess only!
无非是把有点才气的女诗人窒息致死而后已!
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The stale air made us suffocate.
浑浊的空气使我们感到窒息.
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If you stayed seated, he said, you'd suffocate.
如果你还留在座位上, 他说, 你就窒息了.
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Covering beds in enough pillows to suffocate an entire old people's home.
89在床上放满枕头,多得都能把老人窒息.
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A " free city " which was not genuinely free would suffocate freedom.
一个并不真正自由的 “ 自由城 ” 将使自由受到窒息.
辞典例句
Improperly applied, it can suffocate the Bill of Right, turn our democracy into totalitarian state.
运用不当, 它就会扼杀权利法案, 把我们的民主政体变成极权主义国家.
辞典例句
The frog spawn needs air and would suffocate in the stagnant pool below.
蛙卵需要空气,在不流动的水池里会窒息而死.
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The heat is tolerable at night but suffocate during the day.
在夜间尚能忍受这种高温,但白天就令人感到呼吸困难.
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Are you trying to suffocate us with that putrid smell?
你是想用那讨厌的气味把我们窒息死 吧 ?
电影对白
Without this vital exchange our cells would quickly die and leave the body to suffocate.
没有这至关重要的交换过程,我们的细胞就会迅速地死去,我们的躯体也会窒息.
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If you shut all the windows, I will suffocate.
如果你把窗户全部关起来, 我就会闷死.
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He uses a combination of length, quickness and tenacity to suffocate his opponents.
他的臂展, 敏捷性以及坚韧的防守意志令所有对手胆战心惊.
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英英释义
1. deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing;
"Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"
"The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"
2. impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of;
"The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
3. become stultified, suppressed, or stifled;
"He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"
4. suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of;
"His job suffocated him"
5. be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen;
"The child suffocated under the pillow"
6. feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air;
"The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating"
7. struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake;
"he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"